We Were Soldiers

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We were soldiers was on the other night, that movie never gets old, a must watch if you have not seen it.

[Damjan 73]

 

Joseph Galloway: I'm a non-combatant.

Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Ain't no such thing today.

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Great Line from that movie "Custer was a pus*y sir"

[SmartAss 11]

I'm watching Windtalkers right now. Another great movie with lots of action.

[RUTGERS95 890]

I'm watching Windtalkers right now. Another great movie with lots of action.

hated it....could not get through it...

 

love 'when we were soldiers'......

[GRIZ 3,369]

FYI, Joe Galloway was awarded a Bronze Star for valor for his actions at LZ Xray.  AFAIK he's the only civilian to be decoarted for valor by the Army in Vietnam.

[gleninjersey 2,141]

We Were Soldiers was an incredible movie. All the more so b/c it is based on actual events. It is right up there with Black Hawk Down.

[Damjan 73]

FYI, Joe Galloway was awarded a Bronze Star for valor for his actions at LZ Xray. AFAIK he's the only civilian to be decoarted for valor by the Army in Vietnam.

I recently watched this great documentary in which he gives the intro and is interviewed throughout the film.

Its in HD and a must watch.

http://m.youtube.com/results?q=vietnam%20in%20hd%20episode%201&sm=1

[manwithnoname 0]

As good as the movie is, the book is better. Riveting.

[67gtonut 847]

As many times as I have seen that movie......  still emotional at the end....  awesome movie

[iRONman 7]

great movie. wait til you watch lone survivor! 

[HavocMan 13]

great movie. wait til you watch lone survivor! 

 

Have you seen "Lone Survivor" already?

[iRONman 7]

Have you seen "Lone Survivor" already?

yes i saw it in november on a screener

[iRONman 7]

and its out on "dvd" in the streets 

[njJoniGuy 2,133]

 Received in an email a short time ago:

 

 

You're a 19 year old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam ..

It's November 11, 1967.

LZ (landing zone) X-ray.

Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the Med Evac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.

Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no Med Evac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

He's not Med Evac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the Med Evacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety.

And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!

Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise , Idaho

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about

The gov. shut down and Hillary running for president in 2016 ( phooey on her "what difference does it make!!!.) and the bickering of congress over Health & OBAMA CARE!

BUT ZIP ABOUT THE PASSING OF Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman

Shame on the media !!!

Now... YOU pass this along.

Honor this real hero.

[GRIZ 3,369]

Rick Rescorla who was the head of security for Morgan Stanley and died on 9/11 was a platoon leader under Hal Moore at LZ Xray. He is the soldier pictured on the dust jacket of "We Were Soldiiers". Hal Moore described him. "as the best platoon leader I ever saw".

 

Rescorla's biography "Heart of a Soldier" is a very good read. Same photo of him at Xray on the cover. He was born in England and experienced WWII there as a child. He served in the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, fought terrorists with the Rhodesian Police, was an officer in the Metro Police in London, and in the US Army. After the Arny he went to law school, taught criminal justice, and wound up in corporate security. He was directly responsible for planning and executing the evacuation of all of Morgan Stanley's 2700 employees and then went back into the WTC to help others evacuate and died when the tower collapsed. He was the subject of a History Channel program as "The Man Who Predicted 9/11". I believe he was living in Morristown at the time of his death.

 

Rescorla biggest dream as a young boy was to become an American soldier. He did this and much more paying his dues many times over.